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Artificial Intelligence

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This chapter gives a brief introduction to what artificial intelligence is. We begin discussing some of the alternative definitions for artificial intelligence and introduce the four major areas of the field. Then, in subsequent sections we present these areas. They are problem solving and search, knowledge representation and knowledge-based systems, machine learning, and distributed artificial intelligence. The chapter follows with a discussion on some ethical dilemma we find in relation to artificial intelligence. A summary closes this chapter.

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    Vicenç Torra, Alexander Karlsson, H. Joe Steinhauer & Stefan Berglund

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Torra, V., Karlsson, A., Steinhauer, H.J., Berglund, S. (2019). Artificial Intelligence. In: Said, A., Torra, V. (eds) Data Science in Practice. Studies in Big Data, vol 46. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97556-6_2

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